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FIRESIDE TRAVELS
by Lowell, James Russell
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
-
Rockville, Maryland, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1864. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo; VG; Hardcover. Bound in brown leather with gilt lettering to spine and blind and gilt tooling to boards and turn-ins; spine and upper edge of boards sunned; some rubbing to edges and corners of boards, head and tail of spine, joints, and raised bands; small chips to leather along edges of boards and at joints. Silk endpapers; top edge of text block gilt; previous owner's name on a front endpaper; text block lightly age-toned with scattered foxing. Spine from original binding pasted to a blank page at the end of the volume. 324, 22, [2] pp. GP consignment. Shelved Room A. 1349859. FP New Rockville Stock.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Second Story Books, ABAA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1349859
- Title
- FIRESIDE TRAVELS
- Author
- Lowell, James Russell
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Publisher
- Ticknor and Fields
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1864
Terms of Sale
Second Story Books, ABAA
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About the Seller
Second Story Books, ABAA
Biblio member since 2010
Rockville, Maryland
About Second Story Books, ABAA
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- New
- A new book is a book previously not circulated to a buyer. Although a new book is typically free of any faults or defects, "new"...
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